Re: oppose nomination of John Ashcroft

2001-01-20 Thread Mac Norton
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Tim May wrote: As for Ashcroft, we'll see. Bush won, so Bush gets to appoint his staff. The whole "review by the Senate" thing is a relic of the McCarthy era, actually, and should be done away with. Advice and consent of the Senate as to federal officers has been in

Re: The Cost of Natural Gas [was Re: The Cost of California Liberalism]

2000-12-18 Thread Mac Norton
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Huh? Let's make this simple. How is California's lack of power plants causing natural gas prices to rise? Plants that don't exist don't use gas and don't contribute to shortages. What the fella said was the lack of power plants indicates a

Re: On 60 tonight

2000-11-26 Thread Mac Norton
Use your head. One of the first things Bush does is pardon Bill Clinton. After all, given who's in charge of the prosecution, if Gore gets elected Clinton gets prosecuted so the Repubs can keep that circus going; if Bush gets elected, it's not only no longer important, it looks vindictive, which

Re: Goy Any Good Kid Porn sites

2000-11-23 Thread Mac Norton
We're all Jewish here. Go away. Mac N On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Charlene wrote: I wanna see if u had any good free Kid porn sites-REPLY TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks

Re: Word.

2000-10-20 Thread Mac Norton
don't know what version of Word these guys are running, but "Track Changes" works astoundingly often for me on outside mail, to general hilarity at my law office, not "Properties." Sorry he's letting the secret out, in any event:) Purely as an intellectual exercise, of course, some of us have

Re: Non-Repudiation in the Digital Environment (was Re: First Monday August 2000)

2000-10-16 Thread Mac Norton
Oh and as to non-repudiation and lawyers throwing that term around loosely: Most lawyers would probably tell you that, for their purposes, whatever the parties *agree* to be non-repudiation *is* non-repudiation as between *them*. The hard cases are the ones where there's no agreement and

Re: Lessig

2000-03-12 Thread Mac Norton
Maybe so. I'm not sure exactly what he is saying, but unlike Bob H., I'm sure he's not saying law is more important than software. In that sense, he's less than the total opposite of a punk. MacN On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Declan McCullagh wrote: Lessig is in fact in many ways the exact opposite of